Ecologism in Interior Design

Abstract

With the progress of our mankind, great changes have taken place in economy as well as our society, so have the natural environment and ecological system in which we live. Nowadays, we are faced with decreasing natural environment, forest, species, clean water, air and cultivable land. In addition, some urgent issues such as global warming, exhausted energy and widespread rubbish force us to reflect on our future life style. In this situation, interior designers are expected to introduce ecological ideas into their design to push it to a higher and advanced level, which will consequently promote the transformation of the employment of resources in architecture from the consumptive type to the recycled one. Keywords: Interior, Design, EcologyInterior environment is important to our human beings since most of us spend two thirds of our lives in it. According to ecologism, when creating comfortable living and working environment for people, pollution should be reduced to the greatest degree to keep the ecological balance of the whole world. Therefore, it seems particularly important to explore how to save natural resources to protect our environment, how to create the interior environment fir for our living as well as how to combine living, man and nature into an organic and harmonious whole. This article aims at exploring the application of ecologism in our modern interior design.